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Outcroppings: Being Selections of California Verse
by Harte, Bret (Uncredited editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Northridge, California, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco: A. Roman. Fair with no dust jacket. 1866. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth stamped in gilt. Signed to the ffep and to the title page "Bret Harte 1898." Form A of six variations. PO inscription of Paul Lemperly, Jan 22, 1899. With Lemperly's bookplate. Lemperly was a well-known book collector and member of the Rowfant Club in Cleveland. Spine ends frayed, cloth soiled/rubbed, front hinge cracked, few stains to pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- curtis paul books inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40026
- Title
- Outcroppings: Being Selections of California Verse
- Author
- Harte, Bret (Uncredited editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- A. Roman
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1866
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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